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From: "Edward Loizeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "List, S scale" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:07 AM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Random Thoughts and Commentary re: John Degnan
> John Degnan wrote: The presence of Smoky Mountain Model Works in S is due
> SOLELY to my efforts and presence at a Prototype Modeler's Meet one year
> near Savannah, at which Jim King just happened to see my S display.
>
>> Ed replies: Now John, have you not already received your "Atta Boy" button
>> for that? Time to move on to your next accomplishment. Standing on past
>> achievements will not move S forward. What is next for you?
John Replies : I'm not looking for more "atta boys" Ed... just trying to show
that one person can make a difference... and show that is DOES work. But take
a minute and go back through this list (and other lists) and use my name as
search criteria and could for yourself the number of projects I've been working
on since I got SMMW into S scale... betcha can't count them all. So those
projects were "what's next"... along with the ones I'm still working on. Pay
close attention, and hang on tight.
> John Degnan wrote: I've been pondering a move BACK into HO.
>
> Ed sez: Whoops.....where did that decision come from? Y'caught me by
> surprise there. Of course we all will want to know the reasons why.
John Replies : Whoa! Easy there, fella... I ain't goin no where... just
thinking about getting BACK into HO... that does not mean I'm thinking about
LEAVING S. I'm just thinking about collecting S (for the future) and modeling
in HO (again) for a while.
> John wrote: This would be a good move for me since I'm still young enough
> (and
> able) enough to handle and work with smaller scale stuff which I know for a
> fact (no thanks to genetic hand-me-downs that run strong in my family) I
> won't be able to do as well, if at all in later years.
>
> Ed writes: My theory on smallness is that a #00-80 screw is the same size
> regardless of the scale of train it is holding together. Same comment for a
> #00-90 screw. HO flanges are about the same size as S flanges...
> ... Any other reasons for contemplating the switch?
John Replies : Just the same, main reason I started out with... "availibility"
of things I want.
> John wrote: Walthers announced the impending release of a TRANSFER TABLE in
> HO. <snip> NEVER see offered in S.
>
> Ed sez: S didn't have a transfer table when you decided to join us. So now
> you are possibly departing because S does not have a transfer table?
John Replies : Nope. First of all, I never said I was "departing" and
secondly, the transfer table was just a single example of the things (things
(plural), not thing)I want that are in HO but not S.
> Ed concludes: And finally, friend John, you wouldn't want to earn the
> reputation of not having what it takes to be a true S scale guy. No sir,
> that is not something you would want at all.
John Ends With : Not possible. I have long since earned my ring and tie-tag by
lasting more than a year through all the negativity and nay-saying.
But relax, friends... I ain't goin nowhere... just thinkin' about "expanding"
in reverse a bit.
John Degnan
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